Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Paperback)

from Magatha

Goldhagen's vilification of other scholars, in both the text and throughout the footnotes, made me question the integrity of his work. I subsequently read some compelling criticism of both the author and the book, and cannot recommend it. I think he has assembled a well-researched and vividly wri...

from marcares

One can find large amounts of useful data/information and notable events concerning the Holocaust, but this tomb comes with some very surprisingly inaccurate judgement/conclusion/thesis.

from TTAISI-Editor

There's really nothing like a book that condemns an entire nation--no real exceptions--as murdering anti-Semites. Goldhagen's book is an important contribution to the field of holocaust studies, not because it is so correct but because it demonstrates so clearly the limits of using the holocaust ...

from SPQR2755

Very hard to read. It is a sweeping indictment of a whole culture and its institutions well argued and documented. Is it a broad brush? Maybe, but it rings more true than not.